The outermost layer of the Earth.
What is the crust?
Bodies made of hydrogen and helium gas.
What are stars.
The smallest unit needed for life.
What is a cell?
A naturally occurring solid mixture of one or more minerals and organic matter.
What is a rock?
Anything that causes a reaction or change in an organism.
What is a stimulus?
The center of the Earth.
What is the core?
Clouds of dust and gas that create the next generation of stars.
What are nebulas.
It is made up of one or more cells.
What is an organism?
A naturally formed solid matter that has crystalline structure.
What is a mineral?
The passing of traits from one generation to the next.
What is heredity?
The layer of the Earth between the crust and the core.
What is the mantle?
Vast groupings of stars.
What are galaxies.
It stores the DNA of the organelle.
What is the nucleus?
Rocks that form when hot, liquid rock (magma) cools.
What are igneous rocks?
Water, air, a place to live, and food.
What are the basic needs of every organism?
Large pieces of the lithosphere that move around on the Earth's surface.
What are tectonic plates?
The planet closest to the Sun.
What is Mercury.
It controls all of the life processes of the cell.
What is Nucleus?
Rocks whose structure, composition, and texture have changed from those of the original rock.
What are metamorphic rocks?
When two parents produce offspring that share characteristics of both parents.
What is sexual reproduction?
Vibrations that move away from an earthquake.
What are seismic waves?
The planet that is no longer a planet.
What is Pluto?
Animals, plants, and humans.
What are multicellular organisms?
Rocks formed when grains of rock or minerals (sediments)are buried, squeezed together, and cemented by minerals.
What are sedimentary rocks?
When a single parent produces offspring that is identical to the parent.
What is asexual reproduction?